Brett Meiselas
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So it's blocking racism.
And the Supreme Court goes, no, no, no, no, no.
The very focus on racism is racist.
If a state legislature says they're not racist and they're gerrymandering for political purposes and you say they're being racist, you being anti-racist and calling them out as racist, you're the racist.
And you want to build majority congressional black districts and areas to represent, say, 35 percent of the population is black and to make sure they have equal representation.
That's racist.
You're focused on race.
The state legislature just says they are focused on political gerrymandering and that they're not doing race.
So we just have to accept them at their word.
That's basically what the Supreme Court said.
And this is going to have far reaching implications in future elections as well as states are just going to continue to say, hey, we're not doing racist gerrymandering.
Sure, we diluted all of the black vote by putting black voters in multiple congressional districts so that they don't even get to elect a single Congress member.
But we were doing political gerrymandering, which is perfectly okay.
Democrats want to ban all forms of gerrymandering.
Republicans block Democrats' effort to block all gerrymandering.
And, you know, I bring all of this up because, you know, there is a path forward, Brett and Jordi and Midas Mighty, where people on a bipartisan basis can work together and do deals.
But every time you do it and every time you see the polling data, you know, says, you know, look, Donald Trump and MAGA's policies are detested and despised.
What do they do?
They call in the favors from their Supreme Court.
They engage in rigging the maps and cheating.